Dicliptera pilosa H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 237. 1817. Type locality: "prope Gonzanama, Malacates et Loxa Novo-Granatensium."

Herbs up to 30 cm. high or more; stems erect or ascending, green, moderately hirtellous, the hairs about 0.25 mm. long, retrorsely curved; leaf blades (only the uppermost present) ovate or obovate, up to 4 cm. long and 2 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded at tip, mucronate (the mucro slender, up to 2 mm. long), narrowed at base and briefly decurrent on the petiole, entire or undulate, ciliolate, thin, both surfaces sparingly hirtellous, the hairs curved, ascending, about 0.25 mm. long, the costa and lateral veins (4 or 5 pairs) moderately prominent, the veinlets coarsely reticulate, the cystoliths conspicous under a lens, up to 0.5 mm. long, straight or slightly curved; petioles slender, up to 1.5 cm. long, sparingly hirtellous or the channel densely so, the hairs up to 0.35 mm. long, ascending or subappressed; capitula aggregated to form terminal spikelike thyrsi up to 19 cm. long and 2.5 cm. broad, or the lowermost axillary, the cymes subsessile, some of the capitula of the terminal racemes subtended by obovate leaflike bracts up to 2.5 cm. long and 13 mm. wide, these conspicuously mucronate; bracts subtending the cymes subulate, up to 4 mm. long and 0.25 mm. wide at base, carinate, sparingly hirtellous, the outer pair of bracts subtending the cymules unequal, thin, green, mucronate, ciliate, both surfaces hirtellous, the marginal hairs up to 0.75 mm. long, straight, spreading, the surface hairs minute, ascending, the venation conspicuous, the costa and 2 pairs of lateral veins pre- dominating, the veinlets parallel or coarsely reticulated, prominent, the posterior bract subrhombic, 1.5 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, acute at tip, cuneate at base, the anterior bract rhombic-obovate, 8 mm. long (mucro 2 mm. long), 3.5 mm. wide at 6 mm. above base, obtuse at tip, cuneate at base, the innermost bracts narrowly lanceolate, 2 to 2.5 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, acuminate, ciliolate; calyx 2 mm. long, the segments narrowly lanceolate, 0.25 mm. wide, ciliolate; corollas lavender, 12 mm. long, sparingly and minutely pubescent, the tube slender, about 1 mm. in diamter, the lips ovate, about 4 mm. long and 3 mm. wide; capsules 4 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, 0.5 mm. thick, obtuse and apiculate, pilose, the hairs about 0.25 mm. long, spreading at tip of the capsule, retrorse toward base; retinacula narrowly triangular, 0.75 mm. long, 0.25 mm. broad at base, acute at tip; seed light brown, flattened, suborbicular, 1.25 mm. in diameter,  about 0.25 mm. thick, densely hirtellous, the hairs straight, spreading, retrorsely barbed.
The nature of the lobes of the lower lip of the corolla was not apparent in the few badly crumpled flowers present on the specimens examined.
EL VALLE: Roadside at Cali, Killip 8335 (GH, NY).